- Title:
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Vietnam: The Australian War
- Written by:
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Paul Ham
- Read by:
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Peter Byrne
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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25
- Duration:
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31 hours 22 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2008
- Available Date:
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November 01 2008
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742017495
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; First Hand Accounts; Military; Vietnam War
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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International bestseller
Winner NSW Premier's Literary Awards / History 2008
Shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards / Non-Fiction 2008
Shortlisted Walkley Book Award 2008
Shortlisted ‘The Nib’: CAL Waverley Library Award 2008
The definitive account of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, by bestselling author of Kokoda.
Seen as the last 'hot' frontline of the Cold War, the ten-year struggle in the rice paddies and jungles of South Vietnam unleashed the most devastating firepower on the Vietnamese nation and visited terrible harm on civilians and soldiers. Yet the Australian forces applied tactics that were very different from those of the Americans. Guided by their commanders' experience of jungle combat, Australian troops operated with stealth, deception and restraint in pursuing a 'better war'.
Drawing on hundreds of accounts by soldiers, politicians, aid workers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people, Paul Ham reconstructs for the first time the full history of our longest military campaign. From the commitment to engage, through the fight over conscription and the rise of the anti-war movement, to the tactics and horror of the battlefield, Ham exhumes the truth about this politicians' war - which sealed the fate of 50,000 Australian servicemen and women. More than 500 soldiers were killed and thousands wounded. Those who made it home returned to a hostile and ignorant country and a reception that scarred them forever. This is their story.
"Paul Ham is to be congratulated on this outstanding book. His journalist's eyes have exposed a different, more realistic view of the Vietnam War and its key players. It is not only a good read, but it brings all the parts of a complex stage of Australia's development together in a logical, balanced way that will appeal to all readers."
Amazon
"It is the comprehensiveness of Paul Ham's blockbuster on Vietnam that is both enticing and chilling to the core, in what is uncovered and laid out with precision and compelling evidence."
The Australian